Candoco Dance Company: Set and Reset/Reset and Last Shelter

A double bill from a London-based dance company at the forefront of conversations around dance and disability. Bridging the mainstream and the experimental, the company’s bold approach and powerful collaborations create distinctive performances; for this one they’re pairing works from two boundary-breaking choreographers in celebration of the different ways of seeing, of being, and of making art.

The evening opens with a restaging of Trisha Brown’s landmark choreography Set and Reset from 1983, reworked as Set and Reset/Reset but retaining Laurie Anderson’s driving score and Brown’s original set of instructions for the piece to evolve in response to the dancers.

In contrast, Jeanine Durning’s Last Shelter explores the enduring human desire to build something together. Working with precise materials within variable scores, the piece unfolds uniquely for each performance; the choreography highlights the velocity and precision of each dancer’s decision-making from moment to moment in this act of intimacy to witness the labour and desire of the dancer attending to themselves and one another.

Candoco’s dancers are Ben Ash, Megan Armishaw, Ihsaan de Banya, Joel Brown, Olivia Edginton, Anna Seymour, and Markéta Stránská.